Motivational Quotes

Evil

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Evil

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

10.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

11.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

12.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

13.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

14.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

15.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

17.

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

19.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

20.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

21.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

22.

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

23.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

26.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

27.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

29.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

33.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

34.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

35.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

36.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

38.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

39.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

40.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

41.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

42.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

43.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

44.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

45.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

46.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

47.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

48.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

49.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

50.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle